The patient is a 33-year-old man from Xintian County who is receiving
treatment in a hospital, said the Hunan Provincial Health and Family
Planning Commission on Wednesday.

Sporadic human H7N9 cases have been reported in Shanghai, Zhejiang,
Guangdong and Fujian, including two fatalities, one in Zhejiang and
another in Guangdong.

Three human H5N6 cases were also reported in Guangdong and one in
Jiangxi. The H5N6 patient in Jiangxi, a 42-year-old male who lived in
Guangdong, died in a hospital in Jiangxi in December. One H5N6 patient
died in Guangdong in the same month.

We've yet to see the kind of January surge in H7N9 cases that we've witnessed over the past couple of years in China. Whether this reflects some change in the behavior or spread of the virus, or a change in surveillance and reporting, is unknown.